IMPORTANT NOTICE. 



A New Volume (Volume IV) of 



The Natural History of the British 

 Lepidoptera, 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S., 



Will shortly be ready for publication. The price to Subscribers is 15s. 



This volume will contain, besides its own detailed index, a comprehensive 

 General Index of Vols. I, II, III and IV, which is being prepared by Mr. G. 

 Wheeler, M. A., who has kindly volunteered to do the work. The present publishers 

 state that, having agreed to give booksellers more liberal terms than hitherto on 

 net books, the price per volume will have to be raised (22s. 6d. per volume has 

 been suggested) unless another publisher be found. New subscribers are, there- 

 fore, urged to subscribe direct to Mr. H. E. Page, " Bertrose," Gellatly Road, 

 Hatcham, S.E., before publication. Until the date of publication. Subscriptions 

 for Vols. I, II, III and IV will be accepted (if sent direct) at =£3 7s. 6d., i.e., a 

 discount of £1 2s. 6d. on the lowest price at which the volumes will be obtainable 

 after the publication of Vol. IV. 



The book has met with great appreciation from all the leading lepidopterists 

 both at home and abroad, and should undoubtedly be in the bauds of all scien- 

 tific lepidopterists, not merely as being a resume of the work done in the various 

 superfamilies treated, but as expressing the views of many specialists rather 

 than those of the author. Some extracts from the various lengthy reviews that 

 have appeared read as follows : — 



" Ce livre est d'une inappreciable valeur et d'un interet scientifique immense au 

 point de vue de I'etude des Lepidopteres ; 11 est appele a reudre le precieux services a tons 

 ceux qui desirent pousser tres ]oin I'etude biologique des papillons. C'est certainement 

 I'ouvrage le plus complet qu'a ete ecrit sur la matiere jusqu'a ce jour ; 11 cree comme une 

 nouvelle orientation. Ce llvre prendra rang parml les oeuvres des plus grands maitres de 

 rentomologie." — L. J. Lambilllon, Bevue menKuellc de hi Societe eiitoiiioloiiiqiie 

 Namurom'. November, 1902. 



" Tutt's Britixh Lcpidoptera is the most intrinsic work ever written on the Palaearctic 

 Lepidoptera. The work will be of the greatest help to the scientist who knows the matter 

 well enough to be able to distinguish between what is sclentitic and what appears merely 

 in a scientific garb. There is nothing written anywhere on European lepidoptera coming 

 up to it in thoroughness." — Eothschild and Jordan, A Bevmon of the Leimlopterona Fumili) 

 Sphiuifidae. May, 190^. 



'• Before dealing with the work now in detail, we must emphatically assert that, In 

 our opinion, it is far and away the best account of our native lepidoptera that has ever 

 been published. To the really scientific lepldopterlst Mr. Tutt's volumes are Indispens- 

 able. "^P. Grimshaw F.E.S., The AiinuU of Scottish Natiinil HiMoni. January, 1903. 



" To the collector and systematist Mr. Tutt's books are without doubt of high value, 

 but, to the general naturalist, and especially to the student of evolution, they have a direct 

 and uncommon importance. No work of this kind has been attempted In any language 

 hitherto, and Mr. Tutt, though modestly entitling his work A natural hixtovij of the 

 Britixh Lepidoptera, has gone much further afield than such a title would lead a reader to 

 expect. The abstracting and condensation of the evidence, so far as it can be judged by one 

 who is not a professed entomologist, has been most carefully done and the reader may feel 

 confidence that, though the points are concisely put, exaggeration has been consistently 

 avoided. Altogether such a work Is one to be thankful for, and there can be no doubt 

 that such a publication will stimulate the younger generation of students to step from the 

 narrow track of mere collecting and to wander oft' Into the more fertile fields of experiment 

 and observation of living forms." — W. Bateson, M.A., F.R.S. The Entojiiolonixt's Reeord, 

 etc. December, 1902. 



" The amount of labour performed and research that has been made seems almost 

 appalling. The work may be taken as a model by one who is less experienced provided he 

 does not follow it too closely and thus destroy his own originality of thought and plan. 

 While it must prove indispensable to the entomologist who desires full information on the 

 lepidoptera of the British Isles, it will be exceedingly valuable to students of the lepidoptera 

 in the United States and elsewhere, because of the exhaustive study of the literature of 

 the genera and higher grouj)s, and the careful and conscientious manner In which the 

 author applies the laws of nomenclature." — C. H. Fernald, M.A., F.E.S., Tfie (Janadian 

 JLntomoloiiiat , January, 1903. 



